- From: David Marston/Cambridge/IBM <david_marston@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:20:07 -0500
- To: www-qa-wg@w3.org
I think it is crucial to the mission of standards-related testing that anyone can get the test suite and an example of the object-under-test and run it on their own. All licensing regarding submissions should make that clear. Constraints on publishing results would be a different story. In my view, you simply want to follow on to the above principle by saying that any published results should include sufficient information about the test setup to allow a reader to download the suite and object-under-test and replicate the published results. Whether the maker of an object-under-test can squelch publication of test results is a separate controversy. In the USA, they probably canNOT do so, but it may take a Supreme Court case (IANAL). .................David Marston
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